Overcoming alcohol, tobacco and Junk Foods and Eat Healthy.Part1

By: Shaila Touchton | April 12, 2017 (Part1) I wanted to start with this beautiful verse where all treasure of wisdom lies.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1. The Diet in Eden After God created our first parents, He said, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed ... and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (food)" (Genesis 1:29). After the Fall of Man Vegetables were added to man's diet. God cursed the ground and said, "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth unto thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field" (Genesis 3:18). Before the Flood Great wickedness prevailed. "The inhabitants of the Old World were intemperate in eating and drinking. They would have flesh meats, although God had given them no permission to eat animal food." E.G. White, Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 373. After the Flood Man was given permission to eat clean meat for the first time. Provision was made for meat eating as two of every unclean animal and seven of every clean animal entered the ark (Genesis 7:2). However, God forbade eating the blood of the clean animals. "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat" (Genesis 9:4). Even the eating of clean, bloodless meat had serious consequences. The Bible records a marked decrease in the life span of the postflood patriarchs. After the flood God saw that the ways of man were still wicked. "He (God) permitted that long-lived race to eat animal food to shorten their sinful lives. Soon after the flood the race began to rapidly decrease in size, and in length of years." The Ideal Diet for Israel The Israelites were permitted to eat the meat of clean animals (see Leviticus 11). However, they were instructed to eat neither the fat nor the blood. "It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood" (Leviticus 3:17). In the New Testament, the Gentiles were told to "abstain from ... things strangled, and from blood" (Acts 15:20). God's ideal diet for Israel is given in Exodus, chapter 16. "Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you....And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years" (Exodus 16:4, 35). "When God led the children of Israel out of Egypt, it was His purpose to establish them in the land of Canaan a pure, happy, healthy people .... He removed flesh food from them in a great measure... .Had they been willing to deny appetite in obedience to His restrictions, feebleness and disease would have been unknown among them. Their descendants would have possessed physical and mental strength. They would have had clear understanding of truth and duty, keen discrimination, and sound judgment." God's ideal diet for Israel is given in Exodus, chapter 16. "Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you....And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years" (Exodus 16:4, 35). "When God led the children of Israel out of Egypt, it was His purpose to establish them in the land of Canaan a pure, happy, healthy people .... He removed flesh food from them in a great measure... .Had they been willing to deny appetite in obedience to His restrictions, feebleness and disease would have been unknown among them. Their descendants would have possessed physical and mental strength. They would have had clear understanding of truth and duty, keen discrimination, and sound judgment." As in the human race, disease in animals is increasing. Contaminated meat, dairy products, and eggs are common sources of food-related illness. "Disease in cattle is making meat eating a dangerous matter. The Lord's curse is upon the earth, upon man, upon beasts, upon the fish in the sea; and as transgression becomes almost universal, the curse will be permitted to become as broad and as deep as the transgression. Disease is contracted by the use of meat .... In a short time it will not be safe to use anything that comes from the animal creation." E. G. White, Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 411. FOODS THAT FIGHT DISEASE Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator. These foods, prepared in as simple and natural a manner as possible, are the most healthful and nourishing. E.G. White, Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 313. "Again and again I have been shown that God is trying to lead us back, step by step, to His original design, --that man should subsist upon the natural products of the earth.... Among those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord, meat eating will eventually be done away; flesh will cease to form a part of their diet. We should ever keep this end in view, and endeavor to work steadily toward it." E. G. White, Counsels on Diet and Foods, pages 380, 381. Category: Healing and Deliverance Tags: Overcoming alcohol, tobacco and Junk Foods and Eat Healthy part1